Given Yu Yi’s personality, he could stop her once but not forever. If he forcibly took her back, she would hate him. He understood her well enough to know she would find ways to return and change the course of events. If he repeatedly stopped her, she would become increasingly angry and eventually begin to hate him.
In the end, he couldn’t overcome her will, and he didn’t want their relationship to reach that point.
The sound of horse-drawn carriages approaching came from the distance.
Yu Yi took out her telescope and looked in the direction of the sound. There were two carriages. The first was not a common civilian carriage but a style reserved for third-rank officials and above – certainly Chen Gao’s. The second carriage was much more ordinary, likely for attendants and servants. Chen Gao, currently a deputy minister of justice, would not bring many escorts while traveling outside Longdu City.
Yu Yi turned to look at Meng Qing, unable to hold back her tears. She immediately turned back, took a deep breath, covered her face, and waited quietly for the carriages to approach.
As the carriages reached them, Yu Yi leaped out. The horses neighed in fright, the driver cried out in surprise, and the curtain lifted. A guard immediately pushed the driver aside and assumed a defensive posture.
Yu Yi quickly subdued him with two moves, then pulled down the curtain. Another guard inside immediately tried to protect the panicked Chen Gao.
Yu Yi threw a dagger at the guard, then immediately followed the dagger and lunged forward. The guard instinctively deflected the dagger, leaving his chest exposed and unable to block Yu Yi’s subsequent strike. The guard, struck heavily in the chest, could barely breathe and collapsed to one side, weakly swinging his knife at Yu Yi, but it was ineffective against Yu Yi’s bulletproof system.
Yu Yi drew another dagger from her waist and stabbed it into Chen Gao’s chest, piercing his heart. Chen Gao’s eyes widened, and he slumped softly on the carriage floor. Yu Yi didn’t spare him another glance, leaping out of the carriage and sprinting away.
She ran through reed bushes taller than a person, with Meng Qing closely following her. Sunlight filtered through the green reed leaves, creating quick circular light spots on their bodies.
